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Coronavirus crash shocked many, but Paul Singer wasn’t one of them

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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The market rollercoaster continues, with many surprised at how quickly everything crashed. However, Paul Singer of Elliott Management questioned why investors were surprised at all, given how high valuations had gotten before the COVID-19-related crash.

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Passive investing

In his April 16 letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Singer pointed out that passive investing isn't really money management. He said investors "get away with" delegating all their investing decisions to indices "as long as the asset classes rise...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.